But after the beating SPiderman 3 took from all the nitpicking, I have to say Spiderman 2 has it much worse, its just not as blatant or used for comedic effect. From May’s overdone platitudes in the backyard to Parker definitely playing it more emo in this one (just without the hair) – and Mary Jane is being much mroe unreasonably mean about her career early on than she’s accused of in the 3rd movie.

of all the thousand nitpicks I have watching it again, a couple of my faves

- that 95% of the time when Doc Ock is coming he’s making thunderous noises and shaking the place… but a couple times he also manages to leave the room as silent as a cat with no damage, like after getting the Tridium from Harry the 2nd time.

- that even after saving her life (again) and revealing he’s Spiderman, apparently Peter still wasn’t invited to the wedding. And she shows up in her wedding dress, and the second he hears a siren, he still at the greatest moment of his life takes off to check it out. Kind of justifies all of MJ’s complaints about priorities in the 3rd movie right there

I love thinking of what happens after that scene. She’s sitting around in his dingy apartment in a wedding dress for who knows how long, with probably nothing to do. And maybe the skinny daughter of the landlord comes over and she answers the door and its awkward. I wish that was in the deleted scenes.

what was the last movie to ‘blow your socks off’?

Either way Spider-Man 2 would be a whole hearted thumbs up from me… but there were still some things I definitely didn’t like about it that disappointed me.

I can’t say I’m looking forward to the third since it is back to the Green Goblin again. I mean, at least break out the Hobgoblin. Or Venom! Actually, I’ve heard they are doing six of these bad boys. So, I’m sure Venom will be in there somewhere.

I think one of the first pieces of ’space junkl’ of all time was a camera or something… maybe 4/5 cameras?

As far as the third one, i’m sure they’ll pull the Batman two villians in one film deal. Especially seeing as Curt Connor’s was introduced as Peter Parker’s professor. And The Lizard would be the perfect CG character. Also, he’s played by the guy from Happiness, so maybe he’ll talk to Spiderman about masturbation. “Would you like me to show you?”

I agree, good hype can lead to disappointment in a movie. I don’t think I expected more from Spider-Man 2 though. Visually it was great, but after seeing it I realized that it’s the characters in Spider-Man that are pretty weak to begin with and that’s just the way the comic book is. The movies can’t really overcome that problem without being “untrue” to the source, so as a result you’re not going to walk away from a Spider-Man movie feeling like you got more than just standard Hollywood action entertainment.

I thought X2 was amazing, and I still love it, but with repeated viewings its weaknesses have been exposed to me. Maybe Spiderman 2 will escape this.

As for this year. Personally I was more jazzed after, and had more fun at, Hellboy. But I do know in my head that in almost every way Spiderman 2 really is better. Maybe its cuz Hellboy was something different.